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Jacques Stephen Alexis General Sun, My Brother (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- General Sun, My Brother
- Publication Name
- General Sun, My Brother
- Title
- General Sun, My Brother
- Translator
- Carrol F. Coates
- Contributor
- Carrol F. Coates (Translated by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9780813918907
- ISBN
- 9780813918907
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Genre
- Fiction
- Release Year
- 1999
- Release Date
- 30/11/1999
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Item Length
- 8.8in
- Item Width
- 5.8in
- Item Weight
- 16 Oz
- Series
- CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature translated from the
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Topic
- Literary, Historical
- Number of Pages
- 299 Pages
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The first novel of the Haitian novelist Jacques Stephen Alexis, General Sun, My Brother appears here for the first time in English. Its depiction of the nightmarish journey of the unskilled laborer Hilarion and his wife from the slums of Port-au-Prince to the cane fields of the Dominican Republic has brought comparisons to the work of Emile Zola, Andr Malraux, Richard Wright, and Ernest Hemingway. Alexis, whose mother was a descendant of the Revolutionary General Jean-Jacques Dessalines, was already a mature thinker when he published General Sun, My Brother (Comp re G n ral Soleil) in France in 1955. A militant Marxist himself, Alexis championed a form of the "marvelous realism" developed by the Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier, who called for a vision of historical reality from the standpoint of slaves for whom the supernatural was as much a part of everyday experience as were social and other existential realities. General Sun, My Brother opens as Hilarion is arrested for stealing a wallet and imprisoned with an activist named Pierre Roumel--a fictional double for the novelist Jacques Roumain--who schools him in the Marxist view of history. On his release, Hilarion meets Claire-Heureuse and they settle down together. Hilarion labors in sisal processing and mahogany polishing while his partner sets up a small grocery store. After losing everything in a criminally set fire, the couple joins the desperate emigration to the Dominican Republic. Hilarion finds work as a sugarcane cutter, but the workers soon become embroiled in a strike that ends in the "Dominican Vespers," the 1937 massacre pf Haitian workers by the Dominican army. The novel personifies the sun as the ally, brother, and leader of the peasants. Mortally wounded in crossing the Massacre River back into Haiti, Hilarion urges Claire-Heureuse to remarry and to continue to work for a Haiti where people can live in dignity and peace.
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Publisher
University of Virginia Press
ISBN-10
0813918901
ISBN-13
9780813918907
eBay Product ID (ePID)
578011
Product Key Features
Book Title
General Sun, My Brother
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literary, Historical
Publication Year
1999
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
299 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.8in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.8in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pq3949.A34c6613 1999
Grade from
College Graduate Student
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How extremely exciting to have Jacques Stephen Alexis' masterpiece G n ral Comp re Soleilfinally translated in English for a whole new generation of readers to enjoy, question, and admire. This is another chance for all of us to continue to celebrate this brave and timeless narrative and remember this most committed and enormously talented writer., How extremely exciting to have Jacques Stephen Alexis' masterpiece Gnral Compre Soleil finally translated in English for a whole new generation of readers to enjoy, question, and admire. This is another chance for all of us to continue to celebrate this brave and timeless narrative and remember this most committed and enormously talented writer., How extremely exciting to have Jacques Stephen Alexis' masterpiece Général Compère Soleil finally translated in English for a whole new generation of readers to enjoy, question, and admire. This is another chance for all of us to continue to celebrate this brave and timeless narrative and remember this most committed and enormously talented writer.
Copyright Date
1999
Lccn
99-023064
Dewey Decimal
843
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Series
Caraf Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from the French Ser.
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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